Hajek deals with it expertly, pulling off an exquisite sliced forehand volley that skipped away off the intersection of service box and inner tramline to leave Murray without a prayer of retrieving it.

By the time he arrived in a blacked-out motorcade, and was hustled in through the bookshop doors under an umbrella and past the three-for-two offers, O'Connell Street and Dublin's main tramline had been shut all morning.